Armagh legend Oisin McConville claims GAA players and managers are ‘f*****g so senstive’ and need to take criticism better.

Analysts like Pat Spillane and Colm O’Rourke are regularly berated for comments they make on programmes like the Sunday Game.

But McConville, a pundit himself, said he’s surprised by how thin skinned those who receive the criticism can be.

McConville said: “You have to be honest, you have to call it as you see it. Does it go too far? We’re very sensitive, like. We’re f***ing so sensitive within the GAA. It’s actually scary.

“It’s very difficult to know what you can say anymore. It’s gone so sterile in the analysis and yet you wouldn’t think that.

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“I do think we get a little bit sensitive around it. Even going back to when I started playing, you just took it on the chin, you shut your mouth and you got on with it. You used it as fuel for the next day or whatever it was.

“This thing about us jumping on everything that’s said, people are entitled to say these things.”

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Kerry icon Spillane was slated by Dublin boss Jim Gavin for his comments about Diarmuid Connolly’s clash with a linesman in Portlaoise last month.

McConville, a goalscorer in the 2002 All-Ireland final, reckons that Gavin only hit out at Spillane to drum up a useful siege mentality in the current All-Ireland champions’ camp.

The Crossmaglen man said: “I definitely think that was the case with Dublin. Dublin don’t do anything by accident. There are no accidents when it comes to what Dublin produce from a media point of view.”